I've changed my electric slide weapon from my FirebirdV to my Gibson LesPaul Standard only because I've been using the 'bird since the late '70s for these duties and lately, I've been smitten with the slide tones of Gibson Burstbucker 1&2 pickups in the LP.Here's the problem:

The low 'E' and 'A' string are always quite 'dead' and lifeless sounding no matter what I do! In the past 2 days, I've cut new saddles, swapped out bridges and tail pieces, adjusted pup heights and string heights over and over again as well as putting on 4 different sets of strings to eliminate a dead string problem. Changed slides from glass to brass ... sounded a bit better but nothing I'd wanna record.Strings 1 - 4 sing and ring like heaven but my LP is acting a bit goofy. Anybody experienced this?

Oh I can fix it by cranking up the O.D. but, that's not my style. I prefer clarity with a bit of distortion when volume pot on guitar is opened wide.